Treated Like Family: How an Entrepreneur and His ‘Employee Family’ Built Sargento, a Billion-Dollar Cheese Company Audiobook (Free)

At the age of nineteen, high school diploma at hand, Leonard Gentine knew two things: he wanted to own a family group business that could pass from generation to generation, and he wished to spend the others of his life with Dolores Becker, a woman he’d met on the blind date.

For Leonard, life didn’t prove that simple.

This biography, told in the viewpoint of four generations of the Gentine family, places the reader in Leonard’s shoes as he advances from young man to old age and discovers life’s about Treated Like Family: How an Entrepreneur and His ‘Employee Family’ Built Sargento, a Billion-Dollar Cheese Company foundational lessons. Along the way, he endures excellent debts, disappointments, and a assortment of smaller businesses, all with Dolores at his side. It’s an inspirational tale of perseverance, personal integrity, and a mind-set of usually doing the proper thing-as unpleasant as which may be for a while.

TREATED LIKE FAMILY details the development of Sargento-a nationally known cheese company and household name. At exactly the same time, it’s a classic story that showcases the importance of the average person and how a family united within a purpose within the proper culture can be unstoppable.

Tom Faley invites the audience into the lives from the Gentine family and the women and men they hired, deftly weaving a story grounded in over 180 interviews-the collective voices of the business’s employees, retirees, and friends.

TREATED LIKE FAMILY offers a rare glimpse in to the creative brain of an innovator and entrepreneur and underscores the benefits for all of us when we keep our humanity toward each other: When one individual motivates others to draw together, sometimes facing unspeakable odds, he is able not only to change their lives but to improve history.